camel ride when I weigh 15stone

[KathySeldon]

Husband wats to book a camel ride on holiday next week.
I'm feeling that I am too heavy to go on a camel.
AIBU to think that?

If you're going to North Africa, then it won't be a camel 🐫, but a dromedary 🐪.

Hear hear…In their rush to appear self-righteous they’re actually coming off unnecessarily spiteful.

Are you comparing racist attitudes & the inhumane treatment of enslaved humans to animals? This is massively inappropriate, offensive and poorly worded.

Isn’t there an airline that now weighs passengers as well as luggage? I think that makes so much sense.
The 'excess baggage' charge bemuses me when you relate it to diversity in weight of passengers.

I genuinely cannot see the logic of charging people excess baggage for a few kilos in luggage, yet two people weighing seven stone and seventeen stone are treated the same.
I'm not being 'fattist', l'm two stone overweight myself, but it just seems to defy logic when you have to pay extra for a few kilos, but several stone is fine.

I'm saying just because someone says something is ok, it doesn't mean it is.

I'm not comparing anything with anything else.

Wind your neck in.

It’s a very uncomfortable ride! Personally I’d give it a miss.,

I won't share what I've seen in Egypt as others have, it's just too distressing. Seems like OP is very much unconcerned though as she pops off to enjoy the sunshine 🤷‍♀️Don't know why she posted really if what she's read hasn't swayed her decision one way or the other.

Are the welfare standards the same in both countries?

Bet they're not

Beasts of burden are just tools and treated accordingly

OP hasn’t even said which country she’s in and most people here have unilaterally said camel riding is cruel, completely ignoring the fact that welfare standards aren’t the same everywhere and that there are reputable camel trek and legitimate places to ride camels. Obviously no id a if this is the case for OP but it’s not as black and white as all situations where camels are being ridden are bad, which I would argue is not the case for things like swimming with dolphins which it’s been compared to. Camels have been domesticated and used by humans for thousands of years much like horses, not recently captured from the wild like dolphins.

Look at the way fonkeys are generally treated for comparison.v😡

They are beasts of burden...not pets.

Exactly

Continue to support an unethical trade to ensure animal gets fed?

Yes, buy more exotic tigers, puppy farm dogs, rude abused elephants, buy lipstick tested on beagles... won't get fed otherwise

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Please don’t. Totally unfair on the camel.

and have you seen clips of the camel who couldn’t get up because of the weight?

I have seen pack-camels that regularly carry more than 120kg
General welfare is much more important than your 95kg

Hey OP, quick Google shows camels can carry up to 23 stone. I'd just go. Ignore the meanies. Camels are meant to carry big loads, if it's not little you, it'll be a bigger person who's just not thought about it.

Have a good holiday.

"Ignore the meanies op, camels can carry big loads".

Irony is lost on you.

Also participating in animal abuse is worse than online meanies.

They may be concerned that you would start out the ride on a dromedary camel 🐪 but bring back a bactrian camel 🐫.

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HoldingTheDoor · 06/04/2024 19:39
The camels are often treated terribly and cruelly trained. Your weight is the least of the issues regarding tourists going on camel rides.

This. Please don’t.

@RainbowFlutter 'ignore the meanies?' Are you for real? The punching kicking whipping and flogging of the animals doesn't concern you AT ALL??

Where are you all going where the camels are chained? I rode a camel in the desert 30 years ago and there were no chains. When did that start?

They're not. They're demonstrating that a practice can be commonly accepted and immoral at the same time. Astounded at some people's lack of reading comprehension, honestly

They are sentient beings deserving of compassion and fair treatment, end of.

They were in Egypt 30 years ago - all hobbled. And the donkeys with scars across their rumps.

Seriously people please don't. These animals are not cared for or treated well.

Ok ok.
im in Morocco and we’re not doing a camel ride.
I have read every comment.
even worse than camel riding - imo- is the dressed up monkeys with a chain lead.
not sure what I think about snake charmers either.
mad country in many ways!